CHAPTER 7 (NOVEL)

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That was the first night I had a nightmare that had Alex included. I had never thought that could happen. The dream was one of the worst I'd had, but overall, frustrating. I was alone, at the school corridors, all the windows were closed and the lights were off. There was absolute silence, which was terrifying.

I could see nothing at all, but suddenly a light lit at the centre of the passage, shinning hard, and there he was. I walked towards him, so I could hug him and feel protected in his arms. But when I was almost there that light went off. I hugged him, I hugged him as strong as I could, but when the lights came on, he wasn't there. Then the building was completely illuminated, and the white walls reflected a blinding light.

I walked to the end of the corridor. I decided to run, for some reason, but I got lost. I couldn't understand why I was lost in my own school. But soon I realised: it wasn't my high school. I saw a poster were the name was written, but the white walls, blinding me, wouldn't let me read it properly. I leaned on a railing, but this collapsed, and I fell to the abyss.

At that moment I woke up, screaming. My mom came in, scared.

“Darling, are you okay? Why were you screaming?”

“It's okay mom, just a nightmare.” I answered.

“Do you need something?” she asked.

“No, mom, I'm okay, thanks.”

She gave me a hug and kissed my forehead like mothers do, but I couldn't go back to sleep.

I couldn't understand the dream I'd had. Another school, Alex... Everything was really confusing inside my head.

Once more, I cried. I didn't know why I was doing it. I was lucky it was Saturday night and I wouldn't have to go to school next day, facing another tiring day, after that. I put on the TV, cause my eyes were wide open. I clicked MTV, and at some point I fell asleep.

…

The next day, at those last hours of the weekend, I went to the bathroom to have a shower. I needed to relax my whole mind. While I got undressed, I hears a beep. It was my phone. I grabbed it and when I saw the screen, I saw I had a sms. It was Alex. No way. I read it, and it said:

Miranda! See how I do

reply?? They've fixed my phone

at last hehe!

How r u? XO (L)

I smiled. Now I did want to go to school. I got dressed and wetn to my room. While I dried my hair I let the computer to turn on, it took ages, but it was the only one I had.

I finished tidying up the bathroom and sat down. I saw a message on the screen, it was from Facebook. I had a notification. I opened the tag and read the white box:

“Eric Summer wants to be your friend.”

-Hi, you're Miranda, right? We're in the same high school.

It was that guy. The one I'd seen at the corridor the last day.Why did he want to add me on facebook? He'd caught me “spying” him...

Before accepting, I took a look at his profile. He was my age. Most of his photos were sort of artistic. “The Beach”, “Berlin”, “Nature in Hawaii”... He had taken them all. It seemed like the boy had travelled quite a lot. Then I saw a photograph that caught my attention: it was his family and him at the hospital. His dad was apparently the one laying on the bed. They all smiled. Besides him were his mother and a little girl approximately 7 years old, blond, blue eyes.

But his look was what startled me. He was smiling too, but something in his eyes told me that inside, he was feeling a terrible sadness.

I went back, clicked “Accept”, and then my mom called me. Dinner was ready.